Cyber Defense

ISACA-Detroit September Meeting Looks At Risk Intelligence, Records Controls

DEARBORN ? The Detroit chapter of ISACA at its monthly membership meeting on Sept. 19 will discuss Establishing Controls for Your Records and Information Management Program before dinner and Risk Intelligence after. Advance registration ends at midnight September 15. Cheryl Strait talks records control, and Ryan Jones risk intelligence. The meeting is scheduled for University

By |2012-09-05T00:00:00-04:00September 5th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Kaspersky Lab’s 2013 Security Suite Features Exploid Blocker

MOSCOW - A safer way to conduct online transactions and a new exploit blocker are the keystones to Kaspersky Lab's 2013 security suites, the company announced. The major new feature that's in both Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2013 (download) is the exploit blocking engine called Automatic Exploit Prevention, CNET News.Com reported. It's

By |2012-08-27T00:00:00-04:00August 27th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Crisis Malware Targets VMware Virtual Machines

SAN FRANCISCO - Security researchers have discovered a single piece of malware that is capable of spreading to four different platform environments, including Windows, Mac OSX, VMware virtual machines, and Windows Mobile devices. First uncovered last month by security company Integro, Crisis was originally described as a Mac Trojan capable of intercepting e-mails and instant

By |2012-08-24T00:00:00-04:00August 24th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Syria Launches Cyberwar Against Local Dissidents

SAN FRANCISCO - As the Syrian civil war continues to escalate, pro-government forces are allegedly carrying out a cyberwar against local dissidents. Syrian activists, journalists, and government opposition groups are under a barrage of targeted malware attacks, according to the watchdog group Electronic Frontier Foundation. What this malware does is deceptively install surveillance software into

By |2012-08-20T00:00:00-04:00August 20th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

Anti-WikiLeaks Group Takes Down Russian News Site

SAN FRANCISCO - The group, which calls itself Anti Leaks, claims it took down RT.com while expressing support for the anti-Putin punk band Pussy Riot, whose members were arrested in March. An anti-WikiLeaks hacking group has taken credit for launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the Russian news site RT.com, CNET News.Com

By |2012-08-20T00:00:00-04:00August 20th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|

WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Granted Asylum In Ecuador

LONDON - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been granted political asylum by the Ecuadorian government after taking refuge in its London embassy on June 19. The asylum decision follows a U.K. Supreme Court ruling in May authorizing Assange's extradition to Sweden to face questioning over alleged sexual crimes, CNET News.Com reported. Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo

By |2012-08-16T00:00:00-04:00August 16th, 2012|Archive, Cyber Defense|